If you’re anything like me, you probably read a lot of books and forget a lot about them as well after reading them (also see: being ADHD)
Is there one specific book whose plot, characters, setting you just can’t get out of your mind and still think about today even when in the midst of another book?
For me, it’s 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I think due to the sheer volume of this book (clocked in over 1000 pages) I was so invested in Tengo and Aomame’s stories that it’s quite impossible to forget them quickly. This is also why I prefer long novels, because they stick around in my memory for longer!
So what book is still stuck with you?
This was last year, but IT was probably the one that stuck most intensely. And you make a good point about the length of the book, I think that did play a role for me too. Also, I had never read Stephen King before that and had no idea how absolutely trippy his work is. But it was one of those books that has me thinking about it all day and wanting to get back to it. Then when I was done, I was still thinking about it all day. It was weird. In a good way though.
Little Bee by Chris Cleave and Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson were two others (also read in previous years)